Anyone use pfsense?

I'm digging through their forums but everything related to what I'm looking for is several versions old or assumes I understand far more linux/BSD than I do. I'm playing around with it for routing at our semi regular lan parties and it works pretty well but I'm trying to figure out how to tell how much bandwidth any individual IP address is pulling at a given time. Cause blocking torrents is not really very plausible what with encryption, etc...

I've found some stuff that looks kind of promising to limit bandwidth per IP but I don't really care if people saturate the pipe overnight when no one is gaming, but if that's the only way to do it that's fine. I built one at home for my own use to practice with and so far I can tell aggregate bandwidth but I would like to pin it down better.

I'm digging through their forums but everything related to what I'm looking for is several versions old or assumes I understand far more linux/BSD than I do. I'm playing around with it for routing at our semi regular lan parties and it works pretty well but I'm trying to figure out how to tell how much bandwidth any individual IP address is pulling at a given time. Cause blocking torrents is not really very plausible what with encryption, etc...

I've found some stuff that looks kind of promising to limit bandwidth per IP but I don't really care if people saturate the pipe overnight when no one is gaming, but if that's the only way to do it that's fine. I built one at home for my own use to practice with and so far I can tell aggregate bandwidth but I would like to pin it down better.

Oh I'm using pfsense 2.0.2.

Thanks guys.

Use it heavily. You need to look into the rate/traffic limiter. It can do what you want and limit by IP and also on a time window. Several good threads at the pfsense forums from guys who have used it to run LAN parties and internet cafes so do a search.

You can monitor who is pulling what bandwidth at any given time by going to Status > Traffic Graph, then selecting "LAN".

Hah! That's awesome; I never knew this existed.

I just logged into my home m1n1wall and saw it pulling down 25 Mbps, even though nobody is home right now. Then I realized I'd just clicked Buy in iTunes from my work computer for a free game, and that I was watching my home computer automatically download it